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  • Bury Your Art: Induction #139, on Golden-Road.Net, was removed in September 2017. It is preserved here, albeit edited to remove the personal attacks on Golden-Road members.
  • Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
    • In the induction for Family Feud's 400-point format, Cyndi refers to The Price Is Right (on CBS) and Wheel of Fortune (in syndication and on NBC) as being on NBC and ABC, respectively. In a more nitpicky example, the main game was played for dollars rather than points at the time.
    • While discussing Nickelodeon's programming shift in her induction of You're On!, Cyndi misidentifies CatDog as a Klasky-Csupo cartoon.
  • Creator Backlash:
    • Cyndi's reason for removing #139.
      "The Golden Fanbois induction is deleted and won't be returning to the site anytime soon. It was a terrible induction in poor taste and I fully regret it. I need to build bridges rather than burn them."
    • Cyndi has been nicer to Jeopardy! ever since Alex Trebek's death in 2020 and has shown remorse for bashing the show.
  • Creator Breakdown: When Seidelman originally retired from doing inductions.
    ”After lots of thought, I feel that Game Show Garbage has contributed to a lot of the cynicism and negativity. While I've done more positive reviews with The Games Of '90 and in the commentaries and Game Show Gumbo, I can't help but think the inductions stick out like a sore thumb.”
  • What Could Have Been: Cyndi had planned a number of additional inductions that she never finished.
    • Dale Winton’s "Will You Dance With Me" Video (rather bad music video about Winton dancing in front of a green screen with dancers; Seidelman had planned it for UK Month, but felt she could never “do it justice” there, and by the time she decided to use it for a Video Induction a few years later Article 13 was ratified, forcing Seidelman to scrap the induction)
    • The Hell's Kitchen All-Embarassment Team (the worst chefs in general; Seidelman scrapped it when her videos on the worst chefs of Seasons 2 and 3 were blocked in the US)
    • Pulling A Bradford (planned for April Fool's Day 2012; was to deal with a move where a contestant gives up immunity and gets eliminated the same day, which originated on The Apprentice after a contestant named Bradford did this move, with host Donald Trump calling him out for this; scrapped due to Seidelman focusing on college and other projects)
    • That's My Dog! (Family Channel game show that had a bad host and a format that never seemed to be consistent; was replaced with Philly Pheud following Jim Williams’ death)
    • Baby Races (another bad Family Channel game show that, according to Seidelman, felt like exploitation; scrapped because she couldn’t come up with ideas)
    • Scott Sternberg - A Legacy of Failure (planned video for April Fool's 2019 based on UrinatingTree’s videos; Seidelman decided to replace it with Game Show Gumbo instead, so she delayed it to 2020, and it was scrapped when she retired from inductions)
    • Jeremy Clarkson: Game Show Host (planned UK Month video detailing Clarkson’s one-series stint as host of Robot Wars; as Seidelman admits, this induction would've predated Clarkson's well-received stint as host of the revived British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; replaced with "The Worst Final Chase...EVER"!)

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